Comment 234 for bug 85488

Hans,

Exactly the same problem here. I think it is related with the USB_SUSPEND
issue.

Please, can you test if now scanbuttond solves the problem? (in my case, it
remains the same ....)

On 5/30/07, Hans van Esdonk <email address hidden> wrote:
>
> I did the things mentioned below.
>
> u176v046.bin was the file from disk I had to use.
>
> It all looked promising. The scanner worked!!
>
> But strange things happened. It took a lot of time before the scan was
> possible. After 19 seconds warmup the xsane window appeared. Pressing the
> prescan button first led to "scanner busy" but after some time it made a
> prescan and I could print it out.
> So, I tried a few times and also from the terminal window. The messages
> were clear: first line 19 seconds warm-up and then about 20 times the same
> line: 20 seonds warm-up, so in total about 7 minutes.
> Once again a try and it worked. That was the last time. The illumination
> tube did not return to the beginning and the scanner wasn't found anymore.
> So it looks if xsane only detects the scanner in the startposition
> (detector?)
> This is crazy!!!While typing this the scannerlight moves to the start
> position and a scan is possible.......
> So, what can be going on???
>
> Hans van Esdonk
>
>
>
> Conrad Knauer schreef:
> > Hans van Esdonk wrote:
> >
> > "With my BenQ 3300U (Acer) this doesn't work. The line tube doesn't go
> > "home" after starting xsane. If it is at home position (after using
> > windows program mirascan) it works every now and then and I don't know
> > why."
> >
> > Your scanner likely requires proprietary firmware to be loaded when
> > running it from Linux, as per http://snapscan.sourceforge.net/#supported
> >
> > Can you check to see which USB ID your scanner is specifically? To do
> > this, install the "sane-utils" package (from the universe repository)
> > and run "sane-find-scanner" from Terminal.
> >
> > For me, in the middle of the output was:
> >
> > "found USB scanner (vendor=0x04a9 [Canon], product=0x220e [CanoScan],
> chip=LM9832/3) at libusb:003:007"
> > (the USB ID is the vendor/product strings; 0x04a9, 0x220e)
> >
> > For you the output should have vendor=0x04a5 and product as 0x20b0 or
> > 0x20de.
> >
> > If its the one ending in b0, you need the firmware file u176v046.bin
> > If its the one ending in de, you need the firmware file u222v067.bin
> >
> > That should be located somewhere in the Windows driver (you'll need to
> > extract it; alternately it should be somewhere installed in Windows).
> >
> > Put it somewhere on your Ubuntu partition and then run, partially as per
> > http://snapscan.sourceforge.net/#work
> >
> > gksudo gedit /etc/sane.d/snapscan.conf
> >
> > At the very top where it says:
> >
> > ---
> > # Change to the fully qualified filename of your firmware file, if
> > # firmware upload is needed by the scanner
> > firmware /usr/share/sane/snapscan/your-firmwarefile.bin
> > ---
> >
> > change the location in that last line to the location of your firmware
> > file.
> >
> > Then restart xsane and hopefully it should work :) If not, then try the
> > scanbuttond fix previously mentioned in this bug and see if that fixes
> > it; please report back here either way.
> >
> >
>
> --
> some usb_devices fault if usb_suspend enabled
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/85488
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>

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